Today is the 59th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ birth. Jobs was born on February 24, 1955.
Steve Jobs was a college dropout when he teamed up with Steve Wozniak in 1976 to sell personal computers assembled in Jobs’ garage. That was the beginning of Apple, which revolutionized the computing industry and made Jobs a multimillionaire before he was 30 years old. He was forced out of the company in 1985 and started the NeXT Corporation, but returned to his old company in 1996 when Apple bought NeXT. Jobs soon became Apple’s chief executive officer and sparked a resurgence in the company with products like the colorful iMac computer, [Mac OS X, the iPod, and the iPhone]. Jobs was also the CEO of Pixar, the animation company responsible for movies like Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Pixar was purchased by the Walt Disney Company in 2006 for $7.4 billion in stock; the deal made Jobs the largest individual shareholder of Disney stock.
Some sources list Los Altos, California as Jobs’s place of birth. However, in a 1995 oral history interview with The Smithsonian, Jobs said, “I was born in San Francisco, California, USA, planet Earth, February 24, 1955.” Jobs was given up for adoption after birth and raised by his adoptive parents in Silicon Valley… His biological sister is novelist Mona Simpson, author of “Anywhere But Here.”
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Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement Address:
MacDailyNews Take: We miss you, Steve!
Miss you Steve, but I’m loving your legacy.
Peace. X
Please come back.
Would like to have seen what he could have done with another 10 years. Peace.
We’ll kill google, samsung, microsoft, amazon… for. You miss you. Go Apple Go!
Happy birthday Steve jobs
A particularly nice commentary from a non-tech site…
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org
Happy Birthday SJ. Your contributions to the world has been “Insanely Awesome”!
The world still has a big hole in it from when Steve left us.
Missed, missed, missed.
“And each one there
Has one thing shared
They have sweated beneath the same sun
Looked up in wonder at the same moon
And wept when it was all done
For bein’ done too soon”
From Done Too Soon-Neil Diamond
Why is there any mystery as to where he was born. There has got to be a birth certificate.
Yeah, like everyone’s going to accept that. /s